Anirudh Rao
Seismic Risk Modelling Lead at GEM Foundation
Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolAnirudh Rao is a seismic risk modelling lead with 11 years’ experience building national-scale probabilistic and deterministic earthquake risk models and implementing them in the open-source OpenQuake engine. Based in Lombardy and trained at Stanford (PhD) and IIT Bombay, he has led or co-authored national models for India, China, the US, Canada, Nepal, Japan and Myanmar in collaboration with national agencies such as CEA, USGS, FEMA and Natural Resources Canada. He combines deep academic rigour with practical software QA and test automation—contributing precision-focused test fixes to OpenQuake’s core repository—to ensure model reproducibility and numerical accuracy. Known for translating complex geoscience into auditable, production-ready risk workflows, he bridges research, engineering and policy-facing partners to deliver actionable seismic risk insights.
11 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology BombayDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Structural Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Structural Engineering at Stanford University
English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Italian
Github Skills (5)
seismology10
risk-analysis10
python10
testing10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gem/oq-engine
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
OpenQuake Engine: a software for Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:217 reviews, 824 commits, 158 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Anirudh's commits focus on correcting and refining test cases within the `gmf_ebrisk_test` file, indicating a primary role in quality assurance. Their work involves modifying expected values, adjusting precision levels, and ensuring the accuracy of calculations within the OpenQuake Engine's seismic hazard and risk analysis software. The user's commits also demonstrate familiarity with the data tables used for testing and the related calculations.
hazard-assessmentpythonriskrisk-assessmenthazard
GEMScienceTools/oq-risk-book
Jan 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:70 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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